UNSPSC 90101801: Professionally prepared carryout meals

UNSPSC 90101801 Professionally prepared carryout meals (Commodity) is a category under which state and local governments procure ready-to-serve food items for delivery to staff, inmates, students, and program participants across institutional and emergency-response settings. The code spans vending machine operations, detention center and jail meals, school nutrition programs, higher education dining, early childhood program meals, home-delivered nutrition services, and emergency catering for disaster response and essential personnel. State and local issuing bodies soliciting under this code include county sheriffs' offices and probation departments, independent school districts, regional school nutrition cooperatives, municipal colleges, county detention facilities, transit authorities, park and recreation departments, cities, and special-purpose districts. Recent opportunities show active procurement across Florida, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Oregon, with concentration in county-level correctional and juvenile justice food services, school meal programs (particularly public and charter schools operating their own nutrition services or engaging food service management companies), and specialized programs serving early childhood, higher education, and vulnerable populations.

Recent representative procurements include the County of Orange, California issuing IFB-017-3016702-JC for vending machine and concession services across 40 county facilities with a five-year revenue-share contract (responses due July 8, 2026); Harris County, Texas issuing an RFP for comprehensive food services at four juvenile probation facilities including detention centers and alternative education programs (due April 27, 2026); Williamson County, Texas issuing RFP 26RFP19 for jail food services for 600–850 inmates with an annual budget of $1,210,000 (due April 15, 2026); the Beaufort County, South Carolina Sheriff's Office issuing RFP #062226 for detention center meals at 200–255 inmates daily (due June 22, 2026); and multiple school districts including DuBois Integrity Academy and Savannah Classical Academy issuing RFPs for food service management companies to operate National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. Other active opportunities span airport and municipal concessions (Collier County beach and park operations), emergency catering for disaster response (Broward County FEMA emergency food services, City of Cocoa emergency catering), higher education dining (Florida Atlantic University comprehensive campus dining with $10.3 million in annual food services revenue), and specialized nutrition programs for Head Start and early childhood education (Boulder County, Pre-K 4 SA San Antonio). Geographic spread reflects strongest recent activity in Texas (detention, schools, municipal operations), Florida (parks, emergency services, higher education), Colorado (Head Start), Georgia (schools, food giveaway programs), and several scattered state and regional procurements.